Trina Turk Designs iPhone 5, iPad Mini Cases

iPhone 5 owners should prepare for hearts to soar: Designer Trina Turk has paired with M-Edge to create a line of stylish cases for the newest model. Styles were also produced for iPad, iPad Mini, Kindle Fire, and laptops, and are available for purchase now both online at M-Edge and in Trina Turk boutiques.

ELLE.com chatted exclusively with Turk about where the patterns came from and where she stands on the iPhone spectrum.

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ELLE: Did you dive into your archives to find prints or were these developed specifically for the project?

Trina Turk: They all came from the archives, [although] some of them are things we did fairly recently and others went back further. We have 17 years of prints, so it was a lot to choose from. Between the design team and everyone in the office, we whittled down and whittled down. We were trying to select some we thought would work for men as well, so there are a few graphic, geometric styles.

ELLE: In your mind, are the cases more about style or protection?

TT: Both. I've dropped my phone a million times and been lucky that it's never actually broken. But, I've always had a case on it.

ELLE: When did you go iPhone?

TT: I can't even remember, so it seems like it must have been a long time ago. I don't have an iPhone 5 yet, though. I still have the 4. I got my first one at the store at 14th [street] and 9th [avenue] in NYC, even though I live in L.A., so it must have been since that store was opened. I can't imagine life without it. My husband is a photographer, and we've been having a lot of fun both personally and for work on Instagram. He's @MrTurk and I'm @TrinaTurk. It just seems like the perfect medium. I find it much more interesting than Twitter.

ELLE: Was it hard for him to accept being Mr. Turk?

TT: He seems to be fine with taking the name as his "also known as." We've been doing a limited-edition menswear line called Mr. Turk for awhile now that was sold on our website and in our retail stores, and it got to this point that no one was really paying enough attention to it. Our clients were starting to get really mad they weren't getting regular deliveries like they would with women's. So he took it over. He was a stylist for many years, so designing wasn't a stretch for him.

ELLE: Are you an iPad user?

TT: We have one, but I really don't use it that much. I'm a magazine addict. I know it's much easier than carrying around a stack of magazines, but I like to tear out the pages. Really, I'm much more obsessed with my phone than I am with my iPad.

ELLE: Any exciting Thanksgiving plans?

TT: We're just going to chill in L.A., which we're really looking forward to. We're going to go to lots of movies and have an intimate turkey dinner at home.